(17-04-2017 05:10 PM)ImFred Wrote: Back in the day torturing and killing non-Catholics or today's Catholicism of chronic pandemic of child rape and molestation?

It's not pandemic. It doesn't happen any more often than in other professions dealing with kids. What is pandemic is the immediate reflex to brush everything under the carpet. That makes it look big. And it is, since the disease has allowed to spread by simply shipping known molestors to other parishes instead of delivering them to the justice.

The difference is that the church hierarchy engaged in a policy of suppression and cover-ups. This included:

Moving molesters to new locations.
Refusing to alert authorities and/or engaging authorities to aid the cover-up.
Paying off victims with settlements tied to the victims' continued silence.
Moving molesters outside of the countries in which their crimes were committed.
Paying legal fees and financial penalties for molesters.
Enacting policies punishing witness clergy who alerted authorities.

To this day, we still do not know the extent of the damage, the depth of the crimes committed.